NEW DELHI: Facing the threat of stern government action, private airlines which carry about one lakh domestic passengers each day tonight called of their strike on August 18 giving relief to air travellers after two more carriers pulled out of the planned unprecedented stoppage. The Federation of Indian Airlines(FIA) which gave the strike call last Friday announced the decision in view of the "agitating public sentiments" and the potential inconvenience to thousands of passengers and...

KARACHI: A Cyber-criminal, who is on the Interpol and the FBI's most wanted list and was involved in defrauding several companies and individuals of over USD 50 million, was arrested today from Pakistan's biggest city. The accused, Noor Aziz Uddin , was arrested from his residence here during a pre-dawn raid conducted by the Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). Aziz Uddin's two sons, and his companion Arshad Farhan were also reportedly detained during the...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has asked the aviation regulator and the industry to explain the rationale of imposing charges over and above base fares on airline passengers , appearing to disregard airlines' defence that these levies were needed to deal with fluctuating market conditions. Seeking more clarity on the volatility in airfares and the sharp differences in to and fro fares, the top court also sought to know whether the final rates charged by various airlines...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency has been directed to accelerate probe into the treason case against former President Pervez Musharraf and four mega financial scams in government institutions, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said today. Nisar said the FIA has been ordered to accelerate investigation into the treason case against Musharraf and present the report as soon as possible. He said the FIA was given 42 days to...

NEW DELHI: Demanding a slew of measures in the Union Budget including reduction of taxes and continuation of the existing norms for starting international operations, the airline industry has said such steps will give a boost to the ailing sector. "The government policy of 5/20 criteria (five years domestic operations and 20 plane in the fleet) to start international routes as stated in the 2009 guidelines should continue and no change should be permitted or made to this rule," the...

MUMBAI | NEW DELHI: The Federation of Indian Airlines is up in arms against the government's efforts to do away with a rule that mandates a carrier to fly local routes for five years and take its fleet size to 20 planes before being considered for international flying. The lobby group has also found support from national carrier Air India and former civil aviation minister Praful Patel. The new rule is likely to be taken up at a meeting called by the civil...

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Thursday permitted prosecutors to question former military ruler PervezMusharraf and include him in the investigation into the assassination of ex-premier BenazirBhutto in 2007. Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman of the Rawalpindi-based ant-terrorism court accepted a request from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to include the former military ruler in the probe into the assassination. The request was...

NEW DELHI: FIA, an umbrella organisation of Indian air carriers, today strongly favoured continuation of the existing norms for domestic airlines wanting to fly abroad even as Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said that no decision was taken on the issue. The Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA), which filed its response to the new proposed norms on international operations, said that the existing rules, which make it mandatory for local airlines to first...

india has rejected pakistan's by-now-familar sound byte that its domestic laws did not permit it to act on new delhi's "most wanted" list and reminded islamabad that the 1989 agreement between the cbi and the fia, the toronto convention, and the un security council's resolution 1373 provide adequate legal back-up for extraditing those responsible for terror acts in india. government leaders here, who dismissed pakistan's stand that there are legal hurdles for meeting the indian demands, said the...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today sought responses of the Centre and AirAsia on a plea by Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) opposing the go-ahead given to the airline to begin its flight operations in India. A bench of Acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and justice S Mridul also issued notice to the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) and renotified the matter for March 12 to be heard with BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's plea challenging...

ISLAMABAD: Attempts were made to hack the official website of the Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), minutes after the Pakistan Government acknowledged that part of the attack was planned in Pakistan. According to The Dawn, the FIA managed to restore its website within 15 minutes. The FIA's cyber crime wing recorded multiple attempts by unknown hackers to infiltrate just after the Pakistan Prime Minister's Advisor on Interior...

NEW DELHI: FIA, an umbrella organisation of Indian air carriers, today strongly favoured continuation of the existing norms for domestic airlines wanting to fly abroad even as Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said that no decision was taken on the issue. The Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA), which filed its response to the new proposed norms on international operations, said that the existing rules, which make it mandatory for local airlines to first...

MUMBAI: For the second straight year, the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida would see Tata Motors-built trucks racing for honours in the T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship on March 14 and 15 with international drivers at the wheels. Announcing season 2 of the six-team truck racing championship, Ravi Pisharody, Executive Director, Commercial Vehicle Business Unit of Tata Motors , said the success of the inaugural event held in March last year has...

AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes is an angry man. He said his airline AirAsia India has been bullied and pushed into a corner. And, now, it's ready to fight the "big boys" at their own game. He is also a man hopelessly in love with India. In the last few months, he has visited the country 6-7 times, going through the often tiring exercise of walking across the roads of cities such as Kolkata, talking to people at small shops, visiting malls and soaking in the music at...

By Advait Ubhayakar Most days of the year, Madison Avenue works like the rest of New York. But on each Sunday after August 15, since 1981, it has hosted the India Day Parade. NYPD estimates over 1,50,000 people attended each of the past three years. But this year, instead of the annual day-long parade of previous years, the Federation of Indian Associations (FIA) extended their celebrations over an entire weekend. There...

NEW DELHI: India's fiercely competitive airlines have teamed up to oppose the entry of another new airline. IndiGo, Jet Airways, SpiceJet and GoAir have asked the aviation regulator to deny an airline permit to Tata SIA Airlines Ltd, a joint venture between Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines. These airlines, under the banner of the Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA), have argued in a letter to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) that...

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court today issued a contempt notice to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) chief for not serving an arrest warrant issued against former President Pervez Musharraf in connection with the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. The court in Rawalpindi issued the contempt of court notice to FIA Director General Malik Muhammad Iqbal for not presenting Musharraf in court and for not appearing before the judge as...

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has given prosecutors a "last chance" to arrest within two weeks ex-President Pervez Musharraf for failing to cooperate with investigators probing the 2007 assassination of former Premier Benazir Bhutto . After prosecutors again failed to produce the former military ruler in court, Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed said during proceedings yesterday that he was giving a last chance to...

NEW DELHI: Claiming that the approvals granted to AirAsia India were "illegal", Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) has asked the government to advise aviation regulator DGCA not to allow the new no-frill airline to launch its operations which is set for June 12. "It is our request that the government advise the DGCA not to permit AirAsia India to proceed to fly, that too with merely one aircraft with the sole intent of making the...